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Nearly 30 members from the Lancaster, Leaf & Petal and Green Gardeners garden clubs joined together Tuesday morning to decorate the outside of the Historic Courthouse on Main Street. Each member brought a bag of greenery and the group worked to make garland, bows and wreaths.

HEATH SPRINGS – Heath Springs is getting a hospitality tax Jan. 1. The only question is how much it will be.
That decision is left up to town council. Unlike the local option sales tax, the hospitality tax does not require voter approval.
The amount could be 1 percent that goes to the county, 2 percent split with the county or 2 percent that the town keeps. But it’s going to be at least 1 percent.

Nearly 2,500 people visited downtown Lancaster for Saturday’s Christmas in the City festivities, which included the Artisans Holiday Market, trolley rides, music and pictures with Santa.
“Bringing people together and having a good time downtown gets you in the Christmas spirit,” said Joe Timmons, the city’s events and promotions manager. “That’s the most important thing – to get people in the Christmas spirit.”

Here's a quick recap of what you may have missed this weekend. The holiday season kicked off downtown, prep basketball has begun and the Mike Kersey Memorial wrestling tournament was held Saturday. Obituaries include Freddie Burton Ackerman Jr. and Little G. "Bill" McManus.

Rep. Mick Mulvaney met with Donald Trump on Monday in New York, and several national news outlets described him as a serious contender for director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Mulvaney, the 5th District Republican from Indian Land, declined comment on the substance of the meeting Monday, and neither he nor Chief of Staff Al Simpson of Lancaster responded to requests for comment Tuesday.

SALUDA – Malik Brooks and the second-ranked Saluda Tigers just keep flowing in the Class AA Upper State football playoffs.

The SHS Tigers, led by senior ace running back Brooks, were just a little too much for the visiting Andrew Jackson Volunteers in a 28-12 Class AA Upper State second-round win at Saluda’s Bettis Herlong Stadium on Friday night.

The Ward Faulkenberry Sr. Christmas Basket has received more than a dozen donations so far totaling $1,705, with a goal of $10,000 this year.
“By this time we were hoping to have received more donations,” said Bekah Clawson, executive director of HOPE in Lancaster. “We are just hoping that the community will step up, because these people are in need.”
The money raised is used for Christmas meal food boxes and for gifts to fill stockings.

Hold on to your toboggans and grab your reindeer reins, as Lancaster ushers in the holiday season Saturday, Dec. 3, with a flurry of fun in the Cultural Arts District downtown.
Revelers will be transported throughout the Cultural Arts District by old-fashioned trolley cars, courtesy of L&C Railway. Hop aboard and disembark at Santa’s Workshop, the Winter Block Party, the Artisans Holiday Market, the historic Springs House, the L&C Railway Museum, the Native American Studies Center and local businesses hosting holiday open houses.